I’ve monitoring the Whats going on at yellowstone? thread at Abovetopsecret.com. They noticed an unusual occcurance on the webicorders that lasts about four minutes and was occuring every hour or hour and a half and now is occuring about every 32 minutes. Take a look at LKWY and notice the dark squiggly line at 1:35, 2:33, 3:32, 4:41, etc. The last one occurred at 11:40. All times are MST.

The chart courtesy of Shirakawa at Abovetopsecret.com (Click to enlarge) shows the duration increasing and the interval between events decreasing.
They are speculating that there may be a geyser forming underwater in Yellowstone lake. Nick_Crawley writes:
We noticed that events were getting bigger and stronger and predicted that IF THE MAGMA WERE RISING OR HEATING UP UNDER THE LAKE that the period it would take for the vent to erupt would get shorter and the interval of the eruptions would trend larger. Look at 1/6. That’s precisely what’s happening, as predicted. The intervals are trending shorter. The eruptions are trending longer.
Other than this recurring squiggle, there is no significant seismic activity.
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